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India backs open source software for e-governance projects
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Prasad Krishna
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Mar 29, 2015
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Apr 04, 2015 04:00 PM
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Openness,
E-Governance
India has said it will use open source software in all e-governance projects, though it did not rule out the use of proprietary software to meet specialized requirements.
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Train the Trainer — Report in Udayavani
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Prasad Krishna
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Mar 02, 2015
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Apr 04, 2015 04:20 PM
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Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia
As part of the Train The Trainer program, on Feb 28, all the participants (Wikipedians from all over India) were taken to Janapada Loka, near Ramanagara. There was a report in Udayavani, Ramanagara edition on March 2, 2015 about this event.
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GoI body National Mission for Manuscripts has digitised 3 million manuscripts
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Prasad Krishna
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Mar 13, 2015
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Apr 05, 2015 03:20 AM
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Openness,
Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge
Twelve-year-old government body National Mission for Manuscripts (NMM) has digitised over thirty lakh manuscripts and 185,88,390 pages in all as of 31 December 2014, Mahesh Sharma, Union Minister of State for Culture, Tourism & Civil Aviation said in the Rajya Sabha this week. He added that the National Archives of India (NAI) is set to digitise another 1,100,000 historic records. The government has spent over Rs 25 lakhs on digitisation as of January 2015 as compared to ~ Rs 36 lakhs in 2012-13.
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More articles for Tulu Wikipedia
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Prasad Krishna
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Mar 10, 2015
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last modified
Apr 05, 2015 04:33 AM
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Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Openness,
Tulu Wikipedia
In all, 100 more articles will be uploaded to the Tulu Wikipedia by teachers and students in Udupi shortly, according to Janaki M. Brahmavara, president, Karnataka Tulu Sahitya Academy.
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Sunil Abraham - Key Listener Speech at Wikimedia Summit 2019
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Sunil Abraham
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May 04, 2019
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May 04, 2019 03:34 AM
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Openness,
Wikipedia
The Wikimedia Summit 2019 – formerly known as "Wikimedia Conference" or "Chapters Meeting" – took place on 29–31 March 2019 in Berlin. Sunil Abraham made a speech at the summit organized in Berlin.
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Open Data and Land Ownership
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Sumandro Chattapadhyay
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May 22, 2019
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May 22, 2019 11:32 AM
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Open Data,
Featured,
Openness
In this chapter of the recently published volume on State of Open Data, Tim Davies and Sumandro Chattapadhyay discuss how the lessons from the land ownership field highlight the political nature of data, and illustrate the importance of politically aware interventions when creating open data standards, infrastructure, and ecosystems. State of Open Data, edited by Tim Davies, Stephen B. Walker, Mor Rubinstein, and Fernando Perini, is published by African Minds and International Development Research Centre, Canada.
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Connaught Summer Institute on Monitoring Internet Openness and Rights
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Prasad Krishna
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Jul 26, 2013
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Openness,
Internet Governance
Malavika Jayaram is a speaker at this event being held at the Munk School of Global Affairs, Bloor Street West.
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June 2013 Bulletin
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jun 30, 2013
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last modified
Jul 27, 2013 09:48 AM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Digital Natives,
Telecom,
Accessibility,
Internet Governance,
Digital Humanities,
Openness,
Researchers at Work
Our newsletter for the month of June 2013 can be accessed below.
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India’s Indigenous Languages Drive Wikipedia’s Growth
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by
Prasad Krishna
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Aug 08, 2013
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last modified
Aug 09, 2013 09:58 AM
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Telegu Wikipedia,
Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Openness
Despite accommodating the world’s second largest English-speaking population behind the United States, it is India’s indigenous language speakers that are creating and consuming the content that is driving Wikipedia’s growth on the subcontinent.
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Odia Wikipedia Workshop at VSSUT, Burla (Coverage in the Sambad)
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by
Prasad Krishna
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published
Jul 29, 2013
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last modified
Aug 19, 2013 08:51 AM
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Access to Knowledge,
Wikimedia,
Wikipedia,
Odia Wikipedia,
Openness
An Odia Wikipedia workshop was organized on July 26 and 27, 2013 at Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, Burla. The Sambad (Sambalpur edition) covered the event.
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